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Despite his recent slash amazing drunken video release, David Hasselhoff was granted sole custoday of his two teenage daughters - CBC
Skating with Celebrities star Kristy Swanson pulls a Tanya Harding and was arrested for assaulting her boyfriend (and former skating partner's) ex- wife - People
Angelina Jolie and the kids take a fathers day shopping trip - She also speaks about potentially repairing her estranged relationship with her own father Jon Voight - Just Jared
Nicky Hilton and boyfriend David Katzenberg made a trip to Lynwood to visit inmate Paris - TMZ
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Rod Stewart, 62, marries longtime girlfriend, Penny Lancaster, 36 - Daily News
Britney Spears has another wadrobe malfunction - X17 Online
In other Brittany news, she caused chaos outside Casa Del Mar hotel in a desperate attmpt to steal the paprazzi's attention away from Mandy Moore, who was doing a press conference inside - Star Pulse
The secret to Victoria Beckham's tiny waist? Edamame. - Daily News
Justin Timberlake explains that in order to focus on having a good show in Europe, he had to send new girfriend Jessica Biel back home to the states - TMZ
Tom Cruise and newly shorn hair twins Victoria Beckham and Katie Holmes spend Fathers Day supporting BFF David Beckham at a Real Madrid soccer match - Perezhilton
Happy Birthday to Jason Patric, Venus Williams, Barry Manilow and more - Dlisted
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